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Fixing Our Streets and Safe Routes to School

** Fixing Our Streets Project List **

Thanks for checking in about our Safe Routes to School/Fixing Our Streets project map and lists. Our staff are still in the process of refining projects before sharing them with the public. It is taking us longer than expected. Check back again, or sign up for Fixing Our Streets newsletter updates. Updated 1/12/18

Safe Routes to School and the Fixing Our Streets Program to Make Safety Improvements

Through PBOT's Fixing Our Streets program, SRTS is expecting to make a large investment in safety improvements around Portland schools in the next few years. This year we're asking families and school communities to help us figure out what is needed most in their high school cluster.

What is Fixing Our Streets? In May 2016, Portland voters passed Measure 26-173, Portland's first local funding source dedicated to fixing our streets for people of all ages and abilities. Fixing Our Streets is projected to raise $64 million for road maintenance and street safety projects across the City of Portland over the next four years. SRTS expects $8 million in investments to make routes safer and more convenient for kids to walk, bike, and roll to school.

How is the money allocated? SRTS divided Fixing Our Streets funds geographically across Portland's 12 high school clusters, each including boundaries of 3 to 13 schools (elementary, K-8, and middle). The allocation process considered cluster-wide demographic information (including student body population) compared with the existing network of pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The final funding recommendations prioritize schools with high rates of communities of color, free & reduced lunch, and English language learners. To learn more about the funding allocation and sample projects, click here.

How did SRTS gather initial feedback from school communities?

Throughout Spring 2017, SRTS staff organized several open houses and community outreach events in partnership with Portland Public School District, Parkrose School District, and non-profit Oregon Walks to better understand the unique needs of each school community.

Community Walks with Oregon Walks & SRTS

Earlier in 2017 through a partnership between PPS and Metro, Oregon Walks hosted community walks to discuss barriers and routes close to school. Read more about the project and see what type of feedback they heard from school communitieson their website.